Improvement in folding ironing-tables



1e. NASON. FOLDING IRONING-TAB'LES Patented Sept. 25. 1877 FIG-h INVENTURI WITNESSES N.PE'ER5. PHO HOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE NASON, OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING lRONlNG-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,635, dated September 25, 1877; application filed May 9,1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE NAsoN, of the city and county of Newport, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Ironing-Tables; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 represents the table as it will appear when folded. Fig. 2 represents thetable ready for use.

My invention consists of a table having a top of suitable form for an ironingboard, supported at each end by legs, which are connected by a novel system of braces hereafter fully set forth. Said braces are simple, inexpensive, and afford a reliable folding connection of the one pair of legs which are hinged to the board with the other pair of legs from which said board is detachable, so that one end of said board may be elevated as heretofore, to receive a skirt or other similar garment.

In the drawings, A represents an ironingboard of common form. It is hinged at its wider end to the folding frame, which supports it, as seen at a.

The front legs B are pivoted, at b, to a double longitudinal brace-bar, O, and this bar is in turn pivoted at c to the brace-frame E, which is itself pivoted to the under side of the table on the same pivot-bar as the hind legs F. The brace-frame E is important for the reason that it not only aids in stiffening the frame, but is the necessary link for connecting the pair of front legs with the table, to enable the supporting-frame to be folded, for the reason that, in'folding the supportingframe, the brace-bar 0 must be disconnected from the rail which connects the hind legs F.

To enable the frame to sustain itself when set up, notches d are out near the ends of the brace-bar 0, whereby the said bar can be looked upon the cross-rail f. To further stiffen the frame, a locking-bar, G, is pivoted to the cross-rail e of the front legs, which has a notch near its end for engagement with a cross-bar, g, on the brace E. Upon the under side of the table a chock, h, is fastened, against which the upper tie-rail t of the front legs takes a bearing when the frame is set up, and, if desired, hooks or other fastening devices may be used to attach the legs to the under side of the table.

I am well aware that tables of this class have heretofore embodied braces for maintaining the legs in proper position while in service; but I know of none in which the system of braces is so simple, cheap, convenient, and effective as in tables embodying my invention.

When the table is not in use, the supporting-frame may be folded against the under si e of the table, as shown at Fig. 1.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a table embodying an ironing-board, a pair of rear legs hinged to said board, and a pair of front legs, from which said board may be elevated, the combination, with said board and legs, of a longitudinal brace-bar hinged to the front legs and to a hinged frame, and provided with notches for engaging with the rear legs, substantially as described.

GEORGE N ASON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE FULLER, ARTHUR L. BROWN. 

